[
UK
/ˈiəpiːs/
]
[ US /ˈiɹpis, ˈɪɹpis/ ]
[ US /ˈiɹpis, ˈɪɹpis/ ]
NOUN
-
electro-acoustic transducer for converting electric signals into sounds; it is held over or inserted into the ear
it was not the typing but the earphones that she disliked
How To Use earpiece In A Sentence
- The earpiece on his cell phone had rattled with the shout.
- Ari inserted his tiny radio earpiece and donned his helmet.
- The company's Private Ears allow the wearer to hear a two-way radio or cell phone through a wireless earpiece.
- In the Hunterian Museum at the Royal College of Surgeons of England is a silver nose, painted pink, affixed to a pair of wire earpieces.
- Three directional microphones help minimise background noise and automatically adjust earpiece volume. Times, Sunday Times
- Lost his hardman image at Charlton when he cried after ripping off the plaster that held his earpiece in. The Sun
- Her hand tightened convulsively on the receiver, the earpiece jerked against her face.
- Any live interview that might expose her inexperience would be dumped, she heard in her earpiece. Times, Sunday Times
- This means plugging an extension into the mobile phone and using an earpiece and a microphone.
- The use of radios is forbidden, except with the use of earpieces.